Redis Vagrant box

This is a build for a Vagrant box whose base is Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS with just an install of Redis. Intended use is when Redis is required but you do not wish to install it locally. Instead you can grab this build and create a Vagrant instance instead.

Requirements

You will need to have installed VirtualBox and Vagrant before proceeding.

Installation

Clone the repository, copying the project into a working directory

git clone https://github.com/Cruikshanks/redis-box.git && cd redis-box

To create the vagrant box, provision it and start the Redis services simply run

vagrant up

This will take a while the first time it runs, as it needs to build the virtual machine from scratch. Once done it will then start it up in the background.

Host port

By default port 6379 will be bound from the host to the guest to enable access to MongoDB from the host. If you wish to change this set an environment variable (REDISBOX_HOST_PORT) to the port you wish to use. The easiest way to do this is when calling vagrant up itself.

REDISBOX_HOST_PORT=6380 vagrant up

Caching

If you intend to use Vagrant and have a number of different boxes, install the Vagrant plugin vagrant-cachier. This project takes advantage of it, speeding up future builds of new Vagrant boxes.

License

This is released under the MIT license.

If you don't add a license it's neither free or open!